Identifier
Created
Classification
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09ISLAMABAD1586
2009-07-15 13:11:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Islamabad
Cable title:
MUMBAI PROSECUTION UPDATE: LATEST TIME LINE
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C O N F I D E N T I A L ISLAMABAD 001586
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/15/2019
TAGS: PREL PTER PGOV PK
SUBJECT: MUMBAI PROSECUTION UPDATE: LATEST TIME LINE
REF: ISLAMABAD 1507
Classified By: Anne W. Patterson for reasons 1.4 (b),(d).
C O N F I D E N T I A L ISLAMABAD 001586
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/15/2019
TAGS: PREL PTER PGOV PK
SUBJECT: MUMBAI PROSECUTION UPDATE: LATEST TIME LINE
REF: ISLAMABAD 1507
Classified By: Anne W. Patterson for reasons 1.4 (b),(d).
¶1. (C) The next hearing date for the Mumbai attacks
prosecution is July 18. The Federal Investigative Agency
(FIA) and Pakistani prosecutors expect to file their formal
charge sheet on July 18. The five suspects in custody, Zaki
ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Hammad Ameen Sadiq, Mazhar Iqbal (aka al
Qama),Abdul Wajid (aka Zarrar Shah),and Shahid Jamil Riaz,
were provided copies of informal charge sheets against them
on May 5. However, the FIA has not formally indicted the
suspects with a final charge sheet due to the earlier absence
of an Anti-Terror Court (ATC) judge. On July 6, a new judge,
Baqir Ali Rana, took charge of the ATC bench in Rawalpindi.
Though the court has postponed hearing the case numerous
times in the last three months, the FIA assesses that Rana
will proceed with the hearing.
¶2. (C) The final charge sheet will be almost identical to
the informal charge sheet from May 5. (Note. A copy of the
informal charge sheet has been emailed to SCA/P. End Note.)
The final charge sheet will include some additional forensic
findings from the FBI and testimony of FBI agents who
interviewed Kasab in Mumbai. According to the FIA, if the
indictment is filed on July 18 then the substantive hearing
will begin after 7 days. The only way to delay the hearing
after the indictment is for the FIA to arrest one or more of
the 13 absconders named in the charge sheet. The absconders
are suspects whom the FIA has not been able to trace. If any
of them are arrested, the court will grant the FIA more time
to build its case.
¶3. (C) A Post Legatt investigator is in Amman, Jordan
obtaining evidence from the head of CallPhonex. On July 16,
the FIA will be sending an investigator to join the USG
investigator and to personally obtain certified CallPhonex
records in Amman.
PATTERSON